Ellen Langer Quotes

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Software

• I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Think
  • Tea

• I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Game
  • Success

• My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Child
  • Another

• After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • New
  • India
  • China

• I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.

  

  Kate Moss
  • God
  • Jam
  • Oh

• The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May

• I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell

• I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Work
  • Fashion

• It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Crazy

• The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

  

  Jane Bryant Quinn
  • Real

• I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

  

  Alice Waters
  • School
  • America
  • Free

• Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis

• I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I can talk to all of these people and have something in common, maybe I can get them to see that they also have something in common with each other when we come together.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Earth
  • Violent
  • Eternal

• I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Special
  • Cynical

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Differences
  • Bygones

• Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

  

  Ellen Langer
  • Stress
  • Events
  • Function